yet another media center problem!

[leeglf]

i have recently started getting a problem with windows media center 2005, when i am watching tv after about half an hour of watching a program the picture starts to stutter the sound stays ok its just the picture!

it does not happen when i watch dvd's or avi's just when i am watching tv!

at first i thought it might be a heat problem but i found that when the picture starts stuttering if i just exit media center to desktop and restart media center(not restarting pc just mce) its works ok again for about half an hour then starts stuttering again!

i also thought it might be down to the decoder, i was using powerdvd7 but i am now using nvidia purevideo decoder and its still the same!

i really need to get this problem sorted as my girlfriend is the one that mainly uses the media center and she is giving loads of grief to sort it out!

so please help me out its doing my head in

many thanks in advance!

[Funkstar]

I don't use MCE so i don't know if this will be of any help.

Does MCE have a setting for the length of Timeshift? Is that set to half an hour?

I guess it's possible that the system could be struggling to dump old video while still recording. Is the drive thrashing when the stuttering happens?

What about launching task manager before MCE then when it does start to stutter, close MCE and see what Task Manager was saying about memory and CPU usage.

[leeglf]

I don't use MCE so i don't know if this will be of any help.

Does MCE have a setting for the length of Timeshift? Is that set to half an hour?

I guess it's possible that the system could be struggling to dump old video while still recording. Is the drive thrashing when the stuttering happens?

What about launching task manager before MCE then when it does start to stutter, close MCE and see what Task Manager was saying about memory and CPU usage.

i have not noticed any more drive activity when it starts stuttering!

i am not sure what the length of the timeshift is set to!

i will try the taking a look at task manager when it starts stuttering!

thanks

[BigBry]

Have you much hard drive space free?
Have you de-fragmented your hard drive recently?
Got any info on the spec of your HTPC?

[leeglf]

Have you much hard drive space free?
Have you de-fragmented your hard drive recently?
Got any info on the spec of your HTPC?

i have got about 50gb of free space (80gb hdd)

yes!

my htpc spec....

athlon xp 1800+ @ 1544mhz
asrock k7s41gx mobo
corsair value pc2700 512mb @ 2.5-3-3-6
xfx fx5200 256mb @ 300/425
windows mce 2005
aspire x-qpack case
aspire 400w psu
creative soundblaster live 24bit
80gb maxtor hdd

i realised i have started having the trouble since i updated the creative drivers for my soundcard so i am going to uninstall them later and see if it helps!

[leeglf]

ok i uninstalled my creative drivers and reinstalled my old drivers (the ones that came with my soundcard) and now everything seems to be working ok!

thanks for the help guys!

[awm]

It's always the soundblaser. I've had a few computers with problems caused by old lives. Proably just unlucky, but you knever know.